Goldsboro v. West Virginia Board of Control

How courts have described this case

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• finding no due process error when a defendant’s sentence was based “entirely on Guidelines considerations”
• emphasizing, among other things, that \no Alleyne error occurs when there is no mandatory minimum sentence imposed which is triggered by judicial factfinding\
• stating than an Alleyne error would be harmless beyond a reasonable doubt if \no reasonable jury could have found that the defendants were responsible for drug quantities below the respective thresholds triggering the mandatory minimum sentences\
• stating than an Alleyne error would be harmless beyond a reasonable doubt if \no reasonable jury could -97- have found that the defendants were responsible for drug quantities below the respective thresholds triggering the mandatory minimum sentences\
• hearsay testimony contained adequate indicia of reliability when accompanied by agent's personal observations and knowledge
• “The fact that [a defendant’s] sentence falls above [a mandatory minimum] is insufficient to establish that the mandatory minimum governed or that an Alleyne error occurred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).